The Null Device

2001/5/9

Shock, horror!
Pauline Hanson's reactionary-populist One Nation party is allegedly being infiltrated by the League of Rights, an extreme-right-wing racist group.
The League of Rights-affiliated Australia First Party, long associated with
neo-Nazi skinhead gangs, Holocaust deniers and the like, is apparently
unofficially merging its membership into One Nation, a party with actual
membership in the Senate. It remains to be seen whether this propels
lunatic-fringe hate groups into parliament or ends up sending the
moderate-reactionary vote back to the National Party and/or what's left of
the DLP.
(via Lev)

Police have used a little-used bylaw against race-hate pamphlets against anti-sweatshop
activists protesting outside the Nike store. The bylaw prohibits the
distribution of pamphlets without a permit, and has been enforced at the
police's discretion (e.g., when the pamphleteers are neo-Nazis, or when
an influential corporation's public image is at stake).